Keyword List Sorter
Sort any keyword list A–Z, Z–A, by character length or by word count, ascending or descending, in your browser.
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About this tool
Sorting sounds trivial until you are looking at six hundred phrases and trying to spot patterns. Alphabetical order groups related head terms together. Length order separates short commercial phrases from descriptive long-tail ones. Word-count order tells you at a glance how specific your list is. This sorter offers all of them without a spreadsheet.
How it works
Your list is split on line breaks and trimmed, then sorted with a locale-aware comparison so accented characters land where a reader would expect. Length sorting compares character counts and falls back to alphabetical order for ties, which keeps the output stable across runs. Word-count sorting splits on whitespace and behaves the same way.
- 1Paste the keyword list you want ordered.
- 2Pick the sort dimension and direction.
- 3Generate to see the ordered list.
- 4Copy or export the result.
Example
Input
cycling shoes, best running shoes for flat feet, shoes
Output
Length shortest first: shoes · cycling shoes · best running shoes for flat feet
When to use it
- Grouping head terms alphabetically to spot coverage gaps.
- Separating short high-competition phrases from long-tail ones.
- Producing a tidy alphabetical appendix for a client report.
- Ordering a tag list by length to fit platform character budgets.
Tips
- Clean the list first — leading spaces sort before letters and look like errors.
- Longest-first is a quick way to find phrases too specific to be worth a page.
- Combine with grouping: sort inside each group rather than across the whole list.
Limitations
Sorting is purely mechanical and carries no judgement about which keywords matter. Locale comparison follows your browser's language settings, so sorting order for non-English characters can differ slightly between machines.
Frequently asked questions
- Does sorting remove duplicates?
- No. Sorting only changes order. Use the Keyword Deduplicator or Keyword Cleaner if you also need duplicates removed.
- How are ties broken?
- Length and word-count sorts fall back to alphabetical order, so the same input always produces the same output.
- Can it sort by frequency?
- Use the Keyword Frequency Counter for that — it ranks entries by how often they occur and exports as CSV.